Big Brother is everywhere! Numerous institutions, individuals and organizations do not comply with privacy rules and regulations. The Flemish "Liga voor Mensenrechten", an EDRi member and the Wallonian "Ligue des droits de l'hommes" joined forces in their fight against today's "Big Brother" culture!

Therefore, they organized, in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Brussel and deBuren, the second edition of the "Big Brother Awards" on 26 January 2012, a night on which the nation's largest privacy violators are exposed and privacy protectors are rewarded.

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Deutsch: Österreichische Big Brother Awards 2011

The 13th consecutive Austrian Big Brother Awards were held in Vienna's Rabenhof Theatre on 25 October 2011. Entrance had to be closed an hour before starting, the theatre was already packed then. 350+ people watched the show inside, many more saw the live stream or assembled at public viewings in Vienna, Graz and Linz.

The event was moderated by Austrian comedian Dieter Chmelar, accompanied by a fantastic showband, plus two more live music acts on stage.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Finnische Big Brother Awards zu EFFis 10. Geburtstag

EDRi member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) organized the seventh Big Brother Awards (BBA) in Finland on 11 September 2011 as part of the celebration events of Effi's tenth birthday.

Electronic Frontier Finland - Effi - was founded in 2001, a few days before the 9/11 attack, by people who were concerned about freedom of expression and information getting trampled by commercial interests, abuse of copyright, and DRM techniques. In ten years Effi has grown into an organization of nearly 2000 members.

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Deutsch: Big Brother Awards Italien 2011

The winners of the Big Brother Awards Italy 2011 were designated on 3 June 2011, in Florence, on the occasion of the e-privacy conference 2011.

Facebook was the "star" of the awards being nominated for several categories and won the price for the "Most Invasive Technology".

The "Lament of the People" award was not given this year, as the votes were equally split between Telecom Italia, Facebook and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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Deutsch: Big Brother Awards Deutschland 2011

The eleventh German Big Brother Awards were bestowed on Friday 1 April 2011 in Bielefeld, Germany. Organized by EDRi member FoeBuD, the ceremony featured eight negative awards in various categories.

In the "Communication" category, Facebook was one winner for "systematically poking its nose into people and their relationships, behind the friendly façade of an ostensibly free service".

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Deutsch: Vier Big Brother Awards für grobe Verstöße gegen den niederländisc...

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Deutsch: Big Brother Awards 2010 in Tschechien

The sixth edition of the Czech Big Brother Awards has recently been organised by EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium in Prague BIO eye where an expert jury selected the winners for 2010 from more than 140 nominations.

The Czech police received the Big Brother award in the long-term spying category, for having violated people's privacy by "their serious and long-term interference in people's privacy, mainly for archiving photographs of cars and its drivers from camera-monitoring systems," as the organiser explained.

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Deutsch: Niederlande: Big Brother Awards 2009

The winners of the Big Brother Awards Netherlands 2009 were announced on 5 February 2010 in Amsterdam.

In the category "Government", the prize was awarded to the creation of a fingerprint database of all Dutch citizens, to be accessed by the police. This database also received a "popular" prize which could be voted on via the internet.